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(3) UFO DOWN-UNDER. UFO Down-Under. How to See UFO’s and Photograph Them.. Factual accounts from observing Genuine UFO’s by Australian UFO Researcher and Skywatcher. Barry Taylor. Producing evidence that we are being visited by. Real UFO’s And how you can learn to see them for yourself.. Written and compiled by. Barry Taylor 3.
(4) UFO DOWN-UNDER. UFO Down-Under How to See UFO’s and Photograph Them. First Edition. No part of this publication which includes written and photographs should be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means including, electronic, digital or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any form of information storage and retrieval systems now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review, written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper or broadcast.. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry. Taylor, Barry, 1946- . UFO down-under : how to see UFO’s and photograph them. 1st ed. ISBN 9780980399806 (pbk.). 1. Photography of unidentified flying objects - Australia. 2. Unidentified flying objects - Australia. 3. Unidentified flying objects - Sightings and encounters Australia. I. Title. 001.9420994 Self Published by Barry Taylor (Original address removed for this publication) Australia. Printed in Australia. Compiled and cover art by Barry Taylor. Back cover alien drawing. Copyright © 1996 Lisa. ISBN 978-0-9803998-0-6 Copyright © 2007 Barry Taylor All Rights Reserved 4.
(5) UFO DOWN-UNDER. CONTENTS DEDICATION. 4. INTRODUCTION. 5. CHAPTER ONE. IN THE BEGINNING. 15. CHAPTER TWO. SIGHTINGS OF UFO’S. 28. CHAPTER THREE. THE 1996 UFO “WAVE”. 50. CHAPTER FOUR. THE 1997 UFO “WAVE”. 74. CHAPTER FIVE. UFO ACTIVITY 1998. 88. CHAPTER SIX. MYSTERY LAWN MARKINGS. 92. CHAPTER SEVEN. GRAFTON UFO “FLAP”. 101. CHAPTER EIGHT. HOW TO SEE UFO’S AND PHOTOGRAPH THEM. 141. CHAPTER NINE. INTER-REACTION WITH THE UFO. 160. CHAPTER TEN. WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM UFO OBSERVATIONS. 186. CHAPTER ELEVEN. HOAX GARBAGE BAG DEVICES USED TO DIVERT UFO’S. 210. CHAPTER TWELVE. UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT OR “ALIEN SPACE CRAFT”. 219. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. MOTHMAN PROPHECIES AND OTHER MYSTERIES THAT AFFECTS OUR FUTURE. 5. 227.
(6) UFO DOWN-UNDER. DEDICATION I dedicate this book to my now deceased parents. A lifetime of support. no matter what ventures I chose to undertake. It was not until their final years, did they too awaken to the fact that there was more to life and death than they ever imagined. There have been events since their passing that continue to alert me that they remain in contact using their own form of communication. It is through them, that my knowledge has taken on a new dimension. It seems to all fit together in some strange way. There are numerous persons that have assisted me on my quest for answers into the UFO mystery over the years, many I have not had contact with for far too long, and many that will always remain close valued friends, including Rex and Heather Gilroy for inspiring me to write this book at last. I also dedicate this book to them. It is the adversities you encounter throughout life that help mould the person you become, and it is the best in people that should be taken with you, because the example has already been set. It is up to the individual to share these good values with the next person you meet. No one is perfect; after all we are but human. It is the awakening and awareness of powers and marvels beyond our normal reality that takes you that important one step further. So, it is the known and the unknown that moulds our lives, I feel that it has with me. Thank you to those that have guided me through sometimes turbulent times, for it is because of knowing you that you have become the most valued to me. My good friend Viv (died 2008) who herself has known times of great adversity, yet finds time to assist others in times of need, including myself, or just sharing that never ending ridiculous infectious sense of humour. I also dedicate this book to you. I also dedicate this book to those in the UFO research field for their support, both overseas and within Australia, for backing me up when I present my new theories and recent UFO sightings. Particularly the group of dedicated members of Sydney based UFOR(NSW), especially Mike Farrell, Anthony Clarke and Wendy Burnham. Also the UFO observers of the future, so that you too may learn how to see the UFO for yourself, and confirm my findings. 6.
(7) UFO DOWN-UNDER. INTRODUCTION U.F.O. means, Unidentified Flying Object. It does not automatically. mean Alien Space Craft or Flying Saucer, being the common perception when UFO is mentioned. Yes, there are Alien Space Craft visiting our Earth periodically, however, the greater majority of UFO’s seen are not Alien Space Craft containing small 4-5 foot [1.5 metre] Alien Beings, they are “Living Space Critters”. Alien life forms yet undetermined by science, and UFO Researchers alike. Some, may be biological living ‘probes’ gathering information about the Earth’s environment. The resulting data, then returned to a distant Alien Race where it is analysed and studied by some distant Alien Scientist. It is these aspects of UFOlogy that will be revealed within this book, and the evidence presented showing why this may be the truth behind many of the UFO objects we see in our skies to-day. Without doubt, the UFO subject has been the most controversial subject in today’s modern society. Millions of people around the world from all walks of life, including military personnel, government officials, airline pilots and prominent business people to the general citizens of the world in all countries have spoken about and reported their own personal sightings, and sometimes physical contact with UFO craft, even Beings from other worlds. There have been many books and discussion papers written on the UFO subject over the years, starting from the late 1940’s. There must be literally thousands of books available on this subject in today’s market place. Especially recent years since 1994 and the advent of the Internet. This easy access to a digital form of communication has opened up a vast distribution of web page sites full of the latest UFO sighting reports, photographs and video clips covering world wide awareness of events as they occur. Exchange and submission of information relative to the UFO phenomenon, is now a fast and simple task eagerly used by the population of the world when the UFO subject affects them personally, and in their quest to learn more on the subject. The Internet also offers fast easy access to and for UFO Researchers around the world.. 7.
(8) UFO DOWN-UNDER. In this book, I will concentrate on my own personal experiences directly related to my sightings and sometimes captured video sequences of these mysterious UFO objects. It is from these personal observations and study of resulting video footage, that I have been able to establish some interesting possible scenarios of what is actually happening when UFO’s are in our skies, and some interesting probabilities as to what some UFO objects actually are. There is a great deal of information within these pages that has never been written before, and may seem unconventional when compared to generally accepted explanations already vented by researchers and authors around the world. I place great value on personal observations of the UFO when in our skies. It is only then, that more accurate and realistic conclusions be seriously considered. The key word is “experience”. Experience based on accumulative data gathered by observation. Then, the combined long term research and study of resulting video evidence using the latest hi-end computer video enhancing programs. And finally learning how to, read the results with greatest possible accuracy. This has been my specialty since 1996. This type of research gives you knowledge on the subject otherwise difficult to obtain through other means. Since 1996, I have captured many UFO on video. In 2000, I produced my first video production called, “UFO Down-Under” featuring a small selection of UFO footage, some with witnesses at the time of filming. I now had enough real UFO footage to show others what has been visiting our skies. Early in my quest for answers on the UFO phenomenon, I learnt the value of Skywatching. I say, “If you intend seeing UFO’s, than you have to watch the skies, for that is where they are”. And that has proven to be true, and very rewarding over the years. I have observed different types of UFO, noted their flight characteristics and capabilities, both at night and during the day. Not only do I include many of my personal UFO sightings within these pages, but a few important sightings reported to me by others. An interesting chapter on “How to See UFO’s and Photograph Them”, is a culmination of years of personal practice, study and development, of the techniques that I use. I share this unique knowledge with you, so you will have the opportunity to put these 8.
(9) UFO DOWN-UNDER. techniques into practice for yourself. If you develop the techniques, you too will see the UFO next time they are in your area. I can almost guarantee it. I began my life long journey with UFO’s when I was a child. My explanation of events is expressed as I remember them. There is memory loss of detail associated with some experiences, but what I do remember makes interesting reading. I have been fortunate enough to have photographed and video taped a large number of UFO over the years, and some of the most interesting are included in this book. When I have not been able to photograph the UFO, either because they were moving too fast, or I was awe struck because they were just too close and could not believe what I was confronted with, so decided to just intensely observe every detail I could. Sometimes I even had the video camera in my hand but did not turn it on.. Seeing is Believing.. Is believing in something that is generally unseen and apparently so extraordinary, really so far out of normal acceptance, that it is classified to be non-existent by our learned scholars and scientific communities of the world, only based on the lack of hard physical evidence that they can not hold in their hands and study under microscopes? Or, is it just the lack of knowledge of the truths in question? Maybe it is an inbuilt belief system that is fully entrenched within our existence, based upon our particular cultural society’s evolution at this point in time? Surely, the overwhelming wealth of witness reports, photographic and physical trace evidence warrants a thorough scientific investigation by our publicly, [via governments] and corporate funded scientific establishments would be in order. Does believing what we are told by persons of authority, who by our estimation, should know the truth and be trusted to inform us justly, automatically become the unarguable truth whether undeniable evidence is produced or not? Should we unquestionably believe or dare to challenge what we are told is the truth by our academics, political and religious leaders? Are we often afraid or un-motivated to seek answers that may question the established truths, whether they be the real truths or not? Do the people of higher education with a string of letters after their name really have all the answers? No! 9.
(10) UFO DOWN-UNDER. Or are they just ‘towing the line’, by re-gurgitation of older established learning’s and conclusions reached many decades ago, by sponsored academics who were expected to reach a pre-determined result as ‘suggested’ by the authorities? In other words, deliberate manipulation of the truth, for the sole purpose of falsifying the facts, therefore influence public perception in a neutral and persuasive manner, that would not be open to questioning or serious challenge. This is called ‘Social Engineering’. It is a huge and real ‘problem’. We see it today regarding ‘climate change’. But that is another story. A clever manipulation of the truth can create a false truth that sounds truthful to the uninformed, yet unchallenged by the informed due either to lack of resources, unwillingness to face the consequences of ridicule, or lack of adequate hard evidence to back-up their newly acquired knowledge gained by specialised research on a particular subject. UFOlogy being the subject referred to in these writings.. Dealing with the evidence.. What if someone can produce evidence that may contradict the so called ‘official’ truths presented to us through media or statements by the authorities or academics? Should we then openly challenge this socially accepted truth when armed with the new knowledge that we believe to be the real truth? At least expect to be heard when presenting statements based on new evidence are put forth? Test the evidence and listen to the findings of the research effort. Can the evidence be repeated under controlled conditions by others? Is this not the accepted ‘Scientific Principle’ of presenting and testing of evidence? These widely accepted truths when publicly challenged are usually handled in a basic ‘official’ tried and tested successful formula. And this is; 1. Instant ridicule and debunking by what ever means necessary. 2. Introduce an academic ‘authority’ to state the ‘official’ accepted scientific approach, and demonstrate why the challenged data is false, and the accepted ‘official’ facts are the ONLY truth we should consider/believe. The use of distortion and bias. 3. Or, a combination of whatever is required to make a public fool of the person or persons making the challenging statements, so the ‘official truth’ remains intact. 10.
(11) UFO DOWN-UNDER. Generally, this approach works because of the way society has been engineered over time. Politicians use it all the time against us. These are simple questions no doubt, but the answers are not so simple when a challenge is presented that conflicts with the accepted truths already well established, and deep rooted within our present day society. This ridicule is not only forthcoming from the public forum and official office’s when new statements are made when describing UFO matters; it very often comes from our so called peers. The UFO fraternity is full of egos ready to ‘fire up’ if challenged or confronted with information that is not already established by the “forefathers of UFOlogy”, or not listed in there own ‘belief systems’ by whatever means they have chosen to acquire a personal knowledge base. Usually evidence from the inexperienced witness, and data from books written by inexperienced authors putting their personal spin on someone else’s personal spin. “Just how far from reality do we want to go with this subject?” The readers own research through many web sites and emailing lists on the UFO subject would soon give you the big picture of what I mean. This is just a few reasons, why progress on learning about the UFO subject has been historically so painstakingly slow to find truths that can be presented, and willingly accepted, that will make a profound lasting impact upon all members of society. There are some unfounded ‘rock solid’ truths around the UFO subject that are cloaked in fantasy and myths, generally accepted as the ‘real’ truth, and make it painstakingly frustrating to bring to wide attention. Basically, UFOlogists are sometimes their own worst enemies. At times, there appears to be a ‘built in conspiracy’. Unfortunately, all this conjecture often works. Lack of co-ordination between active researchers may be a contributing factor to the huge step forward required to establish new facts, and drive forward to establish the impact required to make the authority making these announcements plausible, while being allowed to present appropriate new hard evidence that would back-up the presentation. Serious attempts are being made today with the “Disclosure Project” instigated by Dr. Stephen Greer in the USA. The gathering together of qualified observers with military experience, highly trained and responsible airline pilots and business persons of our society, having agreed to present written and verbal evidence to 11.
(12) UFO DOWN-UNDER. the US congress, stating the UFO problem is in fact real. This is ongoing with no hearing yet announced. How do we gain this ‘undeniable’ evidence? The UFO subject is a diversely wide subject because of the many varied aspects of the subject one can choose to study. Many Researchers select one aspect of UFOlogy as a project, and research reported case histories that feature one particular theme. This may include features such as, Alien encounters or Abduction, physical traces cases, visual effects or a particular type of reported UFO object, like cigar, saucer or sphere just to name a few. Any of the above, plus a wide range of specific aspects of UFOlogy, are certainly valid and important current and future pools of data resource for the current and future UFO information seeking persons. Yet this source of data is of no use, unless it is made available to those pursuing research tasks. This is an age old problem. If it remains hidden in filing systems locked away in ones office, it is generally inaccessible, therefore lost. Fresh minds can find new answers. Thank goodness for books, magazines and DVD’s on the subject. At least some information is getting out there. Yet much remains ‘lost’. Quite often, if old reports are recent releases, they become irrelevant unless they are outstanding, and have taken time to investigate. A new conclusion on a unique case, can spur on the UFO community, unless of course, the debunker’s get there first. Then all the hard work could be lost in the ensuing debate between the ‘experts’. The reliability and accuracy of information gathering in the first instance, is most often reliant upon just how proficient and professional the researcher or investigator was in gathering, cataloguing and compiling the facts from the eyewitness who actually observed and experienced a UFO event. There are quite often, details or observations that the witness may not consider worthy of recording or may have forgotten by the time an investigation is recorded. The UFO investigator may not be fully aware of, or just not ask the right questions that can bring to the surface such details that may change the direction in which questioning should be directed, or data recorded. Outcomes and conclusions can be at opposite ends of the spectrum when different investigation techniques are applied. 12.
(13) UFO DOWN-UNDER. Not all reported UFO sighting events are of such significance, that extensive time be allocated to recording details from witness accounts. This decision is usually quickly made during the first minute of talking to the witness. The investigators experience on the subject is paramount for making these decisions correctly. It may only be necessary to record shape, apparent size and colour, direction of travel and speed if no other effects have occurred, or the sighting time was short and at high altitude. Filing methods and data recovery methods are most important for a central UFO Hot-line, data collection centre or research group. Such database should be accessible to researchers generally, either personally in hard copy files, or via electronic means such as email or web site listings with searchable data base type features.. Through My Eyes.. Throughout my years of existence upon this Earth, I have been fortunate to have witnessed the physical reality of Alien life forms that have periodically visited our atmosphere. Yes, this is true. UFO’s and Alien life forms are indeed a FACT. I have not only seen a numerous variety of UFO types, colours and sizes during night time and day time sighting events, but have learnt by what I have seen. My many observations of a variety of UFO types, has changed my life in many ways. I have a yearning to see more UFO’s, and have them look down upon me observing them. This has actually happened on a few occasions to date. They, the UFO, have also been observing me. And this is the reason I write this book. You need to know what I have experienced. I have photographed and video taped many of these UFO events, and observed in awe during my closest encounters with Alien life forms. This is my proof that they are real. If more of society could experience just a fraction of what I have seen, then I wander how they would react on a world wide scale? If more people had questions to ask, then someone would have some very serious and difficult questions to answer. This is the problem is it not? If this broad scale realisation were to materialise, our society would see the world around them through different eyes. Humanity would make new demands on governments. Society would have their eyes opened to the wonderful truths that surround them. 13.
(14) UFO DOWN-UNDER. Is this what would really happen? Or, would society collapse due to the profound effects this truth would have on religion, politics and science? Would our established social order and comfort zones be violated by authorities frantic to keep order, and attempt to manage and maintain the thoughts and beliefs of the population? Would the feared chaos actually materialise as has been predicted? I believe not. People are smarter than that. This is our future world, and we need to inform ourselves. That is why I am pleased you are reading this book. The ‘social engineers’ have made a decision to keep this secret away from the public, so that the hard questions would not be asked. “If there is a problem, fix it!” Hide the facts, so that questions based of official evidence can not be asked. This is the justification for “Secret Societies” and “Black Budget” programs, a mandatory denial and the isolation of Truth. This is truth revelations on a small scale, on the exposure of a gigantic truth. The reality that this subject actually being factual, is the greatest revelation since the development of modern day society. It could be the stone slung by David that would bring Goliath to his knees. But it does not need to be such a serious issue. It just needs to be managed. What a wonderful future we could have beginning from to-day. But the high and mighty, want to be even higher and mightier. OK, you are not going to hear the truth on the UFO subject from anyone, other then the independent UFO research author, conference speaker or research group gathering. We have seen what happens with public presentations of UFO matters on the TV media news. Usually ridicule. The more spectacular the UFO event, the harder hitting the denial debunker statements usually are. Sometimes man-made or hoax UFO events receive more attention then real UFO events, because they are visually more spectacular or have many witnesses due to the slower speed of the objects in the event. When this happens, the UFO Researcher with knowledge gained from observation of real UFO events, or image analysis, when offering results of analysis and explanation based on personal experience releases his findings of a hoax or man made event, is often jumped on by other UFO Researchers before explanations or evidence can be explained fully and studied by them. 14.
(15) UFO DOWN-UNDER. This has happened to me far too often. The opinion often is, “It looks UFO so it must be real”. This is not always the case. In fact, it is most often NOT the case. And this fact of life is difficult for some UFO Researchers to accept in many cases. The public see some UFO events as unimportant, because some “UFO kook” has tried to explain the event as “Alien”, but our “officials” said it was only a hoax. Who do they believe? It would have to be very powerful spectacular evidence to convince the public and media otherwise. Back to how the UFO Researchers deal with these issues. If we have not had a good UFO case for a while, then this gives us reason to speak up and debate the evidence and facts among researchers from all fields and backgrounds. Most have something positive to offer and skills to adapt, this is how results are reached and questions answered. Thank goodness for the Internet. There are people out there who are interested in taking the time to study the evidence as presented, and make comment or ask further questions. Aiming presented research results and analysis toward the world web page browser seeking answers from those gathering and compiling the UFO data. Be it written or visual data, good evidence is very important, even essential to the astute researcher wanting to freely publish their works and findings to the world audience offered by the Internet. This presentation of UFO works on the Internet is just as important to the student of UFOlogy, as it is to the UFO Researcher presenting the data. This is where I see UFO research most beneficial and self satisfying. Being able to share a neat piece of UFO footage just acquired during a UFO daytime sighting using web based technology to allow access to this clip quickly, and presenting evidence usually rare to acquire. Having video evidence to study and analyse, is the next best evidence to holding a UFO artifact in your hand. Then there are the UFO discussion forums. One is thankfully not limited to local knowledge, but is able to tap into a vast world knowledge base if needed. Sometimes it is beneficial to the outcome and sometimes not. No matter where you go, you are always confronted with some individual that displays the arrogance detrimental to the Human Nature of our species. As they say, “No matter where you go, you will always find one!” And when it concerns UFO’s, there are often more then one. 15.
(16) UFO DOWN-UNDER. This can make UFO forums a waste of time or an overload of conflicting information from a wide or narrow source of previously written data, combined with a load of personal ‘beliefs’ on the matter, that end up in information overload and often throw you off the true line of thought on the issue at hand. You end up having to weigh up the benefits, if any, of presenting future cases to this same interrogation or debate without result. Sometimes it may work for you, but I have found that it mostly has not. It seems to depend upon the familiarity of the subject by others. If details can be associated to the case from previously recorded cases, then historical details that may apply to the new case, may be adapted or explained if they fit. But, if the case contains new unheard of details, then the ‘wild goose chase’ is on. In this event, you have to decide how to deal with the case alone. And if you are the only witness, then this is probably the wisest thing to do anyway. Then present your research results and see how the others react to it. Sometimes during UFO “Wave” activity there are mystery flashes of light in close proximity to commercial aircraft. I have witnessed this many times. The image here was caught when I was video taping the bright light from the aircraft. Suddenly, I noticed this bright flash above the plan. These enhancements show that the flash was relatively short in length and not lightening, because the skies were clear of any cloud. The flash seems to have originated from an Unidentified Flying Object not showing any other lights or navigation beacons. [See similar incident with Westpac Helicopter on October 1st 1997, page 75.] 16.
(17) UFO DOWN-UNDER. CHAPTER ONE In The Beginning.. The beginning is a difficult point in time to identify. There sometimes. appears to be a time preceding our first childhood memories. These are often ‘remembered’ in our dreams. “Where does the beginning start for you?” Have you ever really put some thought into this? We all dream, however some of us claim not to dream. We all do, just some of us are unable to recall our dreams, and say we do not dream. Many people have vivid dreams in colour that are so realistic; it is like watching a movie. The study of dreams is not the subject of this book; however, it is a very important part of our personal persona and reality, that it must be a point of interest or study when it comes to the unexplained mysteries that affect our life constantly or rarely. In regards to the study of UFO’s, the Abduction phenomenon and dreams are directly connected is many cases. This will be explained later. I wish to explain a little about my early years of life, leading up to my first UFO sighting. These writings have a profound ending, and a continual connection that has threaded and intertwined events throughout my life. You too may have a similar connection, for I do not for one minute consider my experiences unique. We are all of the Spirit, and maintain a connection that may take a lifetime to realise, if ever. I hope you can find a connection with your loved ones by realising what I attempt to describe during these writings, as I explain my awakening to a special awareness that seems to be latent in us all. Some are fortunate to have this awareness of Spirit turned on for conscious awareness that is calming and boundless. I am not for one instant out to preach religion in these writings, but I will explain certain aspects of where a Universal energy of some profound awareness can manifest before you, and directly influence your life in a most profound way. Whatever this Universal awareness is, has been recorded in the writings of ancient scribes who have obviously also been confronted by these same energies. That energy they call God. And this God does actually have Angels. And these Angels are sometimes identified as UFO’s. I know, for I have seen them! 17.
(18) UFO DOWN-UNDER. My Father.. My Father was one of the many brave Australian volunteer solders fighting in the Second World War based in New Guinea. Surviving three returned visits into action, he suffered minor shrapnel injuries, re-occurring malaria attacks and what turned out to be a life long stomach problem. But he, unlike many of his mates, did survive the madness of war in the Pacific. He related to me in later years, that he was nearly killed in action three times during his second and third term in the New Guinea dense jungle battlefields. My Father was a realist. He often stated that, “When your time is up, there is nothing you can do about it”. He said that, “Obviously my time was not yet”. He survived the war, but carried the adverse effects of it for the rest of his life. On his return to Australia, he vowed to remain independent of any government handouts offered to returned service men and woman at that time, and that he did. It was not until his 80th year when serious illness hospitalised him did he accept Returned Services assistance when he most needed it. He was grateful that it was available for him. During his second rest leave on the Australian mainland, he first met my Mother. They agreed not to marry until after the war was over. So, on the 6th September 1946 I was born. During the pregnancy, my mother could not keep food or liquids down. She lost weight, and was very ill and weak while pregnant. Fortunately, we both survived. My Mother often stated, “It is a miracle we both survived”. My parents opened a small business in a small country town on the central New England Ranges in New South Wales. Because both were working, I often had a baby-sitter or a friend of the family look after me. My first memory as a baby, was having my nappy [diaper] changed while lying on the dining table. Visitors arrived through the front door to see this new baby [me]. I later recognised them as my Uncle and Aunt. I retain numerous memories of this very early age. My Father was not a church person; in fact he said he was an atheist. He could not believe there was a God after what he had gone through and seen during the war. However, he often admitted that he 18.
(19) UFO DOWN-UNDER. disasters during his time in New Guinea, and subsequent years after the war. I think he witnessed something during the war that he associated with a higher force that was his protection. He never spoke of anything special, but he often just went into deep thought, and stared into space momentarily, as if recalling a beautiful memory when I asked him if he saw anything spiritual during battle. I was thinking of the mysterious Foo Fighters and Will-o’-the-wisp type illuminated (UFO) orbs that were seen at various battle fields and aircraft formations in the Pacific and over Europe. When I was three years old, during winter there was heavy snow falls along the mountain ranges, so my parents went for a drive to have a look at the snow covered peaks. I was being nursed on my Mother’s knee. I remember looking out the car window and seeing the white snow. The railway lines were built through numerous cuttings in these mountainous locations. There was a point where the rail line crossed the highway. Gates were closed across the road to stop the traffic when a train was due. The station attendant had to walk some distance from his cottage to manually close the gates across the road, so the train could make safe passage across the highway, also stop any cars using the road until the train had safely passed. Well, according to how my Father told the story to me in later years, he drove up to where the rail cutting was, and the gates were open. Normally, he would have driven straight through this area unless the gates were closed indicating a train passage. Well, my Father stopped the car in the middle of the road, even though it seemed clear to proceed. As he did so, a freight train suddenly appeared and sped out of the cutting to cross the highway. The station attendant had neglected to come and close the gates. If we had continued driving on, the train would have hit our car, and we would all have been killed in the wreckage. My Father related to me that, “This was his Guardian Angel looking after him and his family”. I was introduced to the idea of a Guardian Angel at a very early age. This thought of a special, yet unseen Guardian Angel was to become part of my life even until this day. Because, I believe this to be true for all of us not just me. I will mention further references of how my personal “Guardian Angel” has assisted me during my life. I believe that 19.
(20) UFO DOWN-UNDER. everyone has their own personal Guardian Angel, but some people are more aware of their intervention than others. At the age of five, our family moved north to a warmer climate. My parents again purchased a business in a small coastal town, and purchased a home just walking distance from the main shopping centre. Now eight years old [1954], my parents and I had set out on a trip south to visit my Grandparents. Stopping at a town along the way to purchase the racing form newspapers, my father said I could buy a comic book to read on the long trip. I looked at the book stand in the news agency, and one book stood out. It was a hard cover book on Science. This is what I wanted to read, not comic books. My Father laughed as I showed him what I wanted, and agreed to purchase it for me. Well, I read this science book from cover-to-cover many times over the years. In fact, I still have this book to-day. My interest and introduction to the marvels of science started at an early age. I appear to have been born with an inquisitive mind. A seed had now been planted in my mind, and I began taking an interest in science, especially Space and the Stars that I often observed from our darkened back yard.. First Alien UFO Type Experiences.. My first experiences began around the age of 8 to 9 years. I considered them to be bad nightmares at the time, although they seemed different to anything that I had ever known, even at this young age. Were these my first “Lucid Dreams?” To-day, these same experiences are similar to “Alien Abduction” experiences reported by those claiming such abductions. I am not claiming that I have been abducted by Aliens, just explaining to you what I have experienced. Settling into bed ready for the nights sleep, I had the strangest feeling that this night was going to be different. I felt as if some unseen person was watching and waiting for me to sleep, so they could come to see me. Now asleep, I was experiencing the most frightening nightmare. I was taken up into a black flying craft. I could not see a single point of light in any direction. This alone frightened me. I was laying down as if still in bed, and could only move my head which enabled me to look around this foreign environment I now found myself in. 20.
(21) UFO DOWN-UNDER. I was aware of at least two ‘people’ near me, although I could not see nor hear them. They were doing something that I disapproved of, but unable to stop them. It was as if all of my physical senses were numbed, for I could not feel anything, only the cold of the surrounding air. Next morning upon awaking, the first thing that came to mind was this frightening experience during my sleeping time. I remember thinking, “It is going to happen again to-night”. “They intend to take me again”. I said nothing to my parents about this “dream”, for this is all I considered it to be. Next night when in bed and relaxing to sleep, I remember thinking, “They want to take me again, but I can stop them by staying awake”. I lay awake as long as I could, but eventually fell asleep. Sure enough, I was again taken up into the same dark craft. I knew it was a craft in the air, because I could see its dark outline just before entering it. Exactly the same feeling overcome me this time, as I had experienced the night before. I must have been told by ‘them’, that they want to see me again to-morrow night for a third time. Upon awaking next morning, I remembered no more than I did the first night, but knew they wanted to see me again a third time. Next evening just before falling asleep, I was thinking, “Well, I can not stop it happening, so why try to resist”. So I went to sleep in more comfort this time. Sure enough, the same experiences happened a third time. However, this time I was told this was the last time they needed to see me, it would not happen again. And it did not. Well, at least for some time.. MEMORY RECALL.. While remembering these incidents just now, I do remember one thing. I saw that the craft was shaped like an egg. I asked the ‘person’, “Why is your craft shaped like an egg?” The reply was, “Because this shape can withstand the pressures of flight”. In later years I personally observed craft of this shape, and it is a well recognised shape of reported UFO’s the world over today. We all know how strong the egg shape is when pressure is applied end to end. From now on, I took more notice of the night sky. I would lay on a blanket on the back lawn and just look at the millions of stars in the dark night sky. My mind would question if there were other 21.
(22) UFO DOWN-UNDER. people out there. I would observe the odd meteor leaving a trail as it was burning up in our atmosphere. I had read about these things in my science book. I also got an insight as to just how vast the Universe was. And how insignificant we Humans were, when compared to what I was looking at. One thing that science book did emphasise for me was, “How big is big” and “How small is small”. This enabled me to adjust my thoughts from the largest, being the Universe, to the smallest, being the atoms that make up all things. I was beginning to understand Nature at age nine. When I was unable to go outside at night and look at the Stars, instead of going to bed after I had turned the light off, I would open the window and lean on the sill to look out at the night sky through my bedroom window. I had become fascinated with Space and all it contained. I remember thinking, “If only I could fly among the Stars”. Now aged ten [1956], upon getting out of bed one sunny morning, I noticed a small dried blood scab on my lower left shin. I thought, “That was not there when I went to bed!” It was not there when I bathed the previous night. The scab was not as if I had just knocked it, for the blood appeared to have had a days drying already, as if half healed, even though it must have been freshly done during the night. So I just forgot about it. It now appears to be what is called a “Scoop Mark”. It goes into the deep flesh of my shin almost to the bone. In 1996, I was talking to a visiting friend about the UFO subject and the types of marks mysteriously appearing on the body after experiencing “Alien Abduction” type experiences. I remembered the mark on my shin, and proceeded to show it to her. The mark was not visible at all. I knew it was there on my shin; it had always been there yet could now find it. During peak UFO activity in 1998, I had further “Alien Abduction” like experiences during sleeping periods. After one interesting experience, the details of which I will explain later, the previously unnoticeable “Scoop Mark” had reappeared. The same mark unseen two years earlier, was now a deep plumb colour. It was if it had been tampered with again. Over the next few weeks it faded to natural skin colour again. Today it is again invisible. 22.
(23) UFO DOWN-UNDER. Mystery “scoop mark” appeared overnight at age 10. It re-appeared a deep plum colour in 1998 during a time of high UFO activity locally, as if it had recently been interfered with. Photo copyright © Barry Taylor 1998. Man’s First Artificial Satellite.. Now aged eleven, [1957] Radio News reports were broadcasting that the Russians were launching the world’s first orbiting satellite in October. This was exciting news for me. I now had a man made object in the sky to look at. That is, if I were lucky enough to see it from where I was living. I monitored the daily news reports and heard that Sputnik should be visible in the western night sky at a certain time. So I was out there watching the western part of the sky, hoping I could see mans first Satellite. It was early in the evening, so I had a darkened sky to observe. Suddenly, I saw a bright silver/white object low on the horizon moving to the North. “There it is!” I yelled. “That is Sputnik!” And sure enough it was. I had seen man’s first Satellite. I did not know at that time, that I would see thousands of them in future years. I now had reason to watch the skies more closely. I had begun my Skywatching career that would become a life long obsession. Once you realise that the UFO subject is not all generated in Hollywood, and is a real fact of life, and then you may like to encourage the young persons in your life to take up a genuine interest. The rewards are outstanding if you become aware of the UFO fact. 23.
(24) UFO DOWN-UNDER. My First UFO Sighting.. Saturday night was movie night. My parents kept their business open for the movie theatre interval. I always went to the movies alone and met friends because of my parents working. This particular night while walking home alone, I had just turned the corner of the road where we lived. While looking up at the starry night sky above our house and toward the East, the sky was full of Stars. My attention was suddenly drawn to a fast moving group of small ‘star like’ objects at high altitude flying south at very high speed. They were out of sight in a matter of seconds. They could not have been aircraft. “What was that?” I thought. I had never seen anything like that before. There were approx. 12 objects in a group. This had me puzzled. Next morning, I questioned my mother to see if she could offer an answer. She had no idea what they were other than being meteors. I had seen meteors and they did not look anything like what I had seen, so I just left it at that. It was not until later years after seeing the same thing again, do I now confirm for sure that they were in fact UFO’s. I had experienced my first UFO sighting in the summer of 1957. If I had known at that time what I know now, I should have maintained a concentrated Skywatch vigil at that time, for the chances of seeing more UFO’s would have been most likely. But I was only 11 years old with no experience in such things. I continued watching the skies whenever I got a chance, but did not see any more of these fast moving objects until the 1990’s. The 1950’s was a time when the world was experiencing a “World Wide UFO Flap”. There were many groups of UFO discs seen and recorded during these years. This was a time when the world societies were in a recovery period after WWII, and industry was in a redevelopment stage with the aim of rebuilding and re employing a decimated society, that now had a hopeful vision of a new future for them. Science and Technology had taken giant leaps forward due to the necessities developed during the war. Radar, aircraft and varieties of weapon systems including the development and implementation of nuclear explosive devices, finally used on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, were major new inventions of the time. This demonstration of new technology was the major contributing factor that ended the war in the Pacific region with Japan. 24.
(25) UFO DOWN-UNDER. It is important to realise, just how resourceful the human race is when its own survival is a real threat. A lesson had been learnt by the power governments. If survival was to continue against the unseen aggressor that may surprise attack, then new technologies must continue to be developed in Top Secret environments. And this is what has continually happened over the last sixty years of relative world peace. So what are the secret technologies capable of today? I can assure you, those special groups of people, and certain members of our world governments, do know that the UFO is a real visitor to Earth. And that some UFO’s are in fact, the space craft of “Alien Beings!” Nature has led thinking minds toward new discoveries and inventions. The UFO is doing the same today. If the power generation used by UFO’s could be adapted to our technology, then the first to successfully duplicate, harness and control this new energy, will be the dominate World power. For with this new energy, must come new weapon systems way beyond our present comprehensions. Is the UFO a real threat to our society? The basic answer to this in my opinion, is an emphatic, “no!”. It is important to realise, that the return of the UFO disc seems to occur as major World wide events every 20 years or so. The 1950’s, 1970’s, and the largest recorded so far during the 1990’s. There have been minor UFO activity between these years, but the UFO discs indicate the presence of the more advanced Alien Beings in charge of a range of UFO craft. These include the Boomerang Formations like Lubbrick Texas 1957. [I witnessed the exact same formation containing the same number of yellow discs in the staggered formation. The whole formation was surrounded with a faint white haze generated by the individual discs. Photo later] There were also the yellow discs in “V” formations. Some containing five [5] discs surrounded by a white haze. And a seven [7] disc “V” formation. These were a standard type of formation, displaying common flight formation positions, one behind the other. These types of formations were very ‘tight’. The discs did not move or vary position while in this formation. It was as if they were ‘locked’into this formation for their whole flight time. Unlike the other ‘loose 25.
(26) UFO DOWN-UNDER. would buffet up and down, and change position within the formation while in rapid flight. These groups also had the surrounding white haze. This haze appeared to be generated by the powerful energy generated by the UFO disc, ionising the surrounding air to make it glow. When high altitude UFO’s were observed, they appeared to be beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, and did not have the glow surrounding the disc because they were flying in space beyond the atmosphere, yet still glowed bright white rather then yellow. The yellow was more associated with the UFO discs in the Boomerang and “V” Formations. The other UFO discs in the groups, appeared smaller craft in size, and were glowing a silver white [Star] colour, with a white surrounding haze of ionised air.. Audible Mystery Voice Heard.. During my eleventh year, I had more strange experiences. One afternoon after arriving home, I went to my bedroom to change out of my school cloths into casual cloths. My parents were working in the business as usual and I was home alone. I had just finished changing my cloths, when I heard a male voice call my name. I turned around expecting a Man to be standing behind me, but no one was there. I searched every room in the house thinking that someone must be in the house, for the voice was so clear and loud. There was no one in the house or outside. The voice that said my name, sounded like a very intelligent mature Man. I knelt down beside my bed in the praying position and said, “I heard you God”. I did this, because that is the only reasoning I could think of that would explain what had just happened. Maybe it was my “Guardian Angel”, I really do not know. All I do know, is that it was real. Nothing like this has ever happened to me since that day.. Mystery Blood Stain.. One morning, I awoke to find a small blood stain on my pillow. I checked my nose to see if it had been bleeding. Close examination showed no sign of blood running down my upper lip or cheek, which should be the case if in fact my nose had bled through the night. There was no sign of blood, dried or otherwise in either nostril. 26.
(27) UFO DOWN-UNDER. The position of the blood stain on the pillow was where my nose was resting. I just could not explain it at all. I could not remember any dreams I may have had, that I could connect to the blood nose. It was completely unexplainable. I have never in the past, nor to this day, suffered from nose bleed. This is the only time in my life that such a thing has happened. To-day, I now know that Alien Abductees report bleeding from the nose. This is said to be the result of possible Alien Implantation of some type of device high up in the Nasal Cavity, even into the Pituitary Fossa. I do not want to think about it! I am not saying that this has happened to me, I just want to tell you of my strange experiences. Some do coincide with Alien Abduction similarities, but I see them as just that, similar.. Deep Sleep.. As I said before, I always went to the Saturday night movies. All my friends were there and we certainly enjoyed ourselves. As usual, I walked home after the movies lone. The walk only took around 10 minutes, so it was not too far. I had been to the Saturday night movies this particular evening, but this time it was different. Not the movies, but the next day. On the Sunday, I just slept for hours. I could not wake up. I was normally up bright and early. After all it was Sunday, a day off school. But this Sunday, it was almost as if I was totally exhausted or had been awake for a week without sleep. My Mother let me sleep until 5 pm. She had to try to get me up, otherwise I would not sleep that night, and I needed to eat something. Well, the way I felt I could have slept for a week. When I attempted to awaken enough to get out of bed, I struggled to open my eyes. On seeing the evening sky beginning to darken at dusk, I thought it was the next morning. I thought I had slept all Sunday and Sunday night, and now it was Monday morning. This was the strangest feeling. I now have learned that this is also an Alien Abduction symptom. But I do not remember seeing or hearing anything unusual that could explain my deep sleep. This too, is the only time this has ever happened to me. It appears to have been an interesting time in my life. 27.
(28) UFO DOWN-UNDER. Lost In The Dark.. One night, I remember waking up after being asleep for some time and getting lost in my own bedroom. Sounds strange I agree. This is how it happened. I do not know why I suddenly awoke, nor do I know what I intended to do. I never went to the bathroom during the night, so that was not the reason. I awoke, got out of bed, and found the bedroom darker than I have ever been able to recall. I could not see one small point of light anywhere. Usually the street light shines through one of the two windows. I knew where the light switch was, I could find it with my eyes closed. But do you think I could find it this time? “I know, I will open the door and let some light in”, I thought to myself. The door knob is just next to the light switch. You guessed it, I could not even find the door knob. The door knob protrude out from the door so should be easy to find. I passed my hand over the wall numerous times in an attempt to find either the light switch or the door knob, but could find neither. This was surly frustrating me. It was almost as if I was in a different room without the switch or door knob I was looking for. The wall I passed my hand over was smooth, as if the light switch and door knob were not there. They should have been easy to find. In fact come to think of it, I could not even feel the door frame. If I could have felt that, then finding the knob would have been simple. I am sure the door was on that wall, I know where it is, or should be. After a while I stumbled back into bed and went to sleep. I could never work that one out. Unless........ Drowning.. Now 12 years old, [1958] it was school Christmas Holidays. Christmas had brought me a pair of scuba flippers and goggles. I had not used these apparatus before, but was anxious to try them out. I hitch hiked the 9.6Klm [6 miles] to the beach alone. I thought I would try out my new gear in the local river. So I fitted the flippers and goggles. I entered the river on a bend, and proceeded to splash around a little. The flippers were cumbersome, but I thought I would get used to them. I suddenly found myself in a deep hole on the river bend. I could no longer touch bottom. The kicking of my legs only made it worse, and I began to panic. 28.
(29) UFO DOWN-UNDER. I was going under and had difficulty getting back to the surface, let alone swim out of it. I fought my way to the surface to gasp some air, but I went under again. The undertow was now pulling me down. Somehow I reached the surface again to gasp more air. I went under again. I could see that I was getting deeper. The situation was serious. I was thinking I was not going to get out of this, and my past flashed into the present. “This is it” I thought, as I went under again. I made one last mammoth effort to get to the surface for air, when I found that I was closer to shore and able to now touch bottom. I was safe. I was exhausted by this frightening near fatal ordeal, and dragged myself out of the water to lie on the sand for a few minutes to re compose my thoughts and energy. When I had recovered, I tore off my flippers and goggles, and threw them as far away as I could, and left them behind. I never wanted to see them again. Someone unseen assisted me out of that mess, because I was gone for sure. “Thank you my Guardian Angel”. I hope you have enjoyed reading some of my early year’s memories, for I have shared some personal experiences with you. These experiences have remained in my memory forever. I value them for they actually happened to me. They are real to me, and have helped shape my life through the years. There are many more incidents I could explain, but I now want to get into the UFO aspect of my life. Before becoming a teenager, I knew about Guardian Angels, seen UFO’s, had Alien Abduction type experiences, developed an interest in science and given a second chance at life itself. Much of it I did not understand at the time. As you get older and more experienced in life, you gain more knowledge as to where your interest lay, some one time mysteries, begin to make sense. If we can all use this accumulated knowledge to better our daily lives, only then have we accomplished something positive. That is all we can expect from ourselves, and each other. Many young children say they have a mysterious “friend” and play with them. They see small lights in their bedroom, and are sometimes heard holding a conversation with someone unseen, but convinced they are actually there. Is this a connection with the child’s Guardian Angel, or are they over imaginative? There could well be something of a reality in such events. 29.
(30) UFO DOWN-UNDER. CHAPTER TWO Sightings of UFO’s. The following chapters, record the start of my sighting of UFO’s from. teenage years to the present. When we get into the mid 1990’s, the data and images of UFO’s becomes very comprehensive. I am certain that you will gain some important knowledge from that section. I have learned a great deal from my observations during this time frame, and many hours have been devoted into gaining visual evidence, so that my understanding of the UFO phenomenon can be broadened. My theories on the UFO that you will read are based on personal observations, not based on theories by others. You may read information never printed before. However, take them in and test them for yourself if you get a chance. You may be very surprised by the results, and just how accurate I have been. Now a teenager at thirteen years, I am sent to a well respected Private School in Sydney. This will give me a good education, yeah right! When am I ever going to use the reigning dates of all the Kings of England? And what do I want to speak French for? The Science and Math’s were good, I can use that. The year is 1960. We were in a recess break, when I noticed a very bright object in the sky in the direction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I pointed it out to the other kids, and we all pointed toward it. “What is it?” we asked one of the teachers. He replied, “It could be a weather balloon”. We all agreed. Well, all but me. “It must me made of Chrome to shine like that”, I replied to the teacher. He commented no further. The others were satisfied with the teacher’s explanation and departed. I remained watching it until it had slowly moved from view into the distance. The object was slowly moving north, turned and headed west until out of sight. I was convinced it was something other than a weather balloon. It just did not look right. That thing was a UFO. I have since seen other UFO’s that display such brilliance in the daytime sky. They are not reflecting Sunlight; they are radiating their own bright illumination that does visually appear to be Sunlight reflecting off a chrome surface. 30.
(31) UFO DOWN-UNDER. I was married at 18 years of age in 1964, and purchased a house in the western suburbs of Sydney. It was while living here, that my interest in UFO’s took a new turn. Man was alleged to have landed on the Moon in 1969; my interest in space was renewed. I had not seen UFO’s for some years. Even at this point in time, I was not really certain that there were such things as UFO’s. It is only in these later years that I became aware of the term “Unidentified Flying Object” or UFO, and this was in fact a ‘real’ mystery the world over. The strange things I had witnessed in the past were just strange to me. I had never taken the effort to seek out the people who may have known about these strange objects in the sky, for I had no idea where to start, or just how important this subject really was. Well that was the case until one evening in 1970.. First Close Encounter.. I was finishing work around 9 pm, and walked to where I had my car parked on the banks of the Parramatta River Concord. The area I had parked my car, was an industrial area and quite dark. I started the car and attempted to reverse, the gears were stuck. I had been having trouble with the linkages that attach to the gear box, so I knew how to fix the problem. I crawled partly underneath the car on my back to reach the linkages, and reset them. Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly noticed a streak of light quickly moving South. “Wander what that was?” I thought, and stood up to get back into the drivers seat. The moment I stood up, I noticed something very strange slowly passing close-by me. What I saw, was a football shaped dim yellow self-illuminated object, slowly flying around 6 metres [20 ft] above the ground, and no more than 20 ft. from where I was standing. I just froze to stare at the object, trying to identify what it was. It was 9-10 feet [3 metres] in diameter and 5-6 feet [1.5 metres] high. The ends were more pointed than an Australian football shape, more like the American grid iron football with the sharper ends. [Side on egg shape] The yellowish colour of the object was like the dark yellow sometimes seen in the Moon. It was not bright. The whole object appeared translucent due to the nature of the illumination. I could not see any features, markings, or changes in density or brightness over the whole objects surface, its surface was consistent. 31.
(32) UFO DOWN-UNDER. While I was standing there, eyes transfixed upon the object, I remember thinking to myself, “There is something inside that thing observing me!” I had this image in my mind, of a little pair of eyes inside the craft looking back out at me watching them. I observed it for around 7-8 seconds, until it quickly accelerated away and lost from sight as it headed towards the city lights of Top Ryde. The fast moving streak of light that caught my attention only moments earlier must have been this same object. It could have seen me laying on the ground half under my car, and decided to turn around to have a closer look at what I was doing. The streak was heading south, turned around to head north, closely observed me then continued North over Top Ryde. I was amazed at what I had just seen. I had no rational explanation that could explain it. As you could imagine, this experience was on my mind full time. I just had to find an answer. Someone must know what it was. I related the story to my work mates, some accused me of consuming too much alcohol, but the others agreed that it could have been a UFO. My search for answers had now begun.. My Search for Answers.. My enquiries led me to a Sydney based UFO group, headed by [the late] Mr. Bill Mosser. The groups name was, U.F.O. Investigation Centre, (U.F.O.I.C.) They held public meetings in the Sydney City once a month, so I planned to attend the next meeting so that I could ask questions, and find out just what I had witnessed. Well, no one could tell me what I had seen, other than that it was a UFO. I listened to the speakers, made myself know to several people, and found this group very interesting. I became fascinated by some of the stories related by others, and what I was hearing had really ‘got me in’. One man I met at the meetings was Frankh Wilks. Frankh was very enthusiastic about the subject of UFO’s, and seemed to be very learned on the subject. He pointed out how the U.F.O.I.C. group was not doing any real research into the phenomenon, just collecting sighting reports. Frankh and I stood up during one of the meetings, and asked Mr. Mosser if we could study their sighting report files. We were flatly refused. These files were the property of U.F.O.I.C., and not available for public viewing. “Secret Files?” we said, “How 32.
(33) UFO DOWN-UNDER. are we supposed to learn what is going on, if we are denied access to the reports submitted to your group by public citizens?” “You would have to be granted special access”, was Mr. Mosser’s’ reply. “Fine” Frankh said, “We request special access to these files”. Later, Frankh and I were personally invited to Mr. Mosser’s home and allowed to “look” at the files. Not read them, just look at how many he had. And there were many.. New U.F.O. Group Formed.. Well, Frankh and I both agreed we would not get any satisfaction here, especially if it was research material we wanted. So Frankh advised me, that he wanted to start a new UFO group called “U.F.O. Research Projects of Australasia” or U.F.O.R.P.A., so I offered to join his new group. We soon had several keen members, and held regular meetings at each others homes. Eventually, I was elected Junior Vice-President of the group, but saw it just as a title holding no real authority. Who wanted authority anyway; we were a group of citizens with the same interests, and trying to find answers to the “Worlds Greatest Mystery”. Because of this new group’s formation, my involvement with UFO research snowballed. I placed my personal home phone number in the Sydney phone book, and started to receive a flood of phone calls. It became obvious, that there was a concentration of UFO activity in the Ryde area. This could have been an extension, or renewal of activity from the time I had my close encounter at Concord almost 12 months earlier. A newspaper journalist contacted me, and wanted a meeting with members of our group. We made arrangements to meet in Parramatta. [A Western Sydney suburb] He was personally interested in UFO’s, and wanted to write an article about what was happening in this area locally. We supplied him with some information and he printed it along with my home phone number. My phone just kept ringing for weeks. UFO’s were highly active around the Ryde area. Even though I did not see any UFO’s personally at that time, I was experiencing my first UFO “Flap” situation. This journalist handed me an original black and white photograph, of a brightly glowing UFO photographed at Epsom, a suburb of Auckland New Zealand. 33.
(34) UFO DOWN-UNDER. An unknown person took this photograph over Epsom New Zealand in 1965. I am not sure if the photo was taken from an aircraft or at ground level. But the image shows a ‘Saturn’ disc shape object with an interesting prole. The print is not in good condition. It is covered in surface cracks due to aging of the surface of the photographic paper, and has a few wrinkles from wear and tear. But is now in a safe place. After the Newspaper article was published, I received numerous calls from the Parramatta/Ryde area wanting to report their unusual aerial sightings. I interviewed many witnesses to UFO activity during this period. I would pack up my cumbersome reel-to-reel tape recorder after being invited into their homes, and record the witnesses first hand testimony as they described in detail what they had seen. Some of the sightings reported, were bight objects ejecting several smaller illuminated objects from the bottom of the main object. These would then ‘shoot off ’ in various directions before the larger object just faded out. One report was of a ladies cat going crazy at the sight of a silent bright object moving slowly past their home, at what appeared to be too low of an altitude to be an aircraft of ours. Numerous reports came in of strange lights flying at low altitude, and then suddenly shooting off at high speed. Yet others were stationery, would dim down, brighten up, then dim again until they faded from sight. The reports were varied and numerous. We questioned, “Why would there be so many UFO sightings in the Ryde area in particular?” Was there a valid reason for such numbers of UFO’s? We made enquiries through various sources, and found what could well have been the key reason for this high level of UFO activity. The Commonwealth Science and Industry Research 34.
(35) UFO DOWN-UNDER. Organisation [C.S.I.R.O.] located at Ryde, were reported to have been experimenting with, and developing microwave technology. There did not seem to be any other Human activity in that district that would attract such UFO attention. So we concluded, that “this must be it”. But of course, we will never know the real reasons for the intense UFO activity at that time.. Joadja Valley Skywatch.. During my time with the U.F.O.R.P.A. group, we went on many skywatche’s. I was beginning to learn the true value of Skywatching, and the rewards it offered. Not only because of the things you see, but the friendships that develop. I remember one overnight Skywatch we went on as a group. There is an abandoned shale mining town called Joadja Valley just near Mittagong south-west of Sydney. The property was now privately owned and we had permission to look around the old workings of the mine area, as the remains of the old cottages and refinery machinery were still there. During the daylight hours, we had set up a radio base, for a couple of us had portable hand held radios so we could keep in touch during the night if we chose to wander away from the group. Just before dusk, the radio became filled with static. Severe interference had suddenly made receiving of the hand held portable two-ways impossible to hear. One member yelled out, “Look to the East just above the mountain!” There was a bright red/orange object flying south. It was much quicker than an aircraft, other than an air force jet, but there was no sound from a jet engine. As the object flew out of sight, the radio static ceased and normal communication was restored. It appeared that this strange red object that had caused the static. With night approaching, we set up camp below a large tree. We hung a hurricane lamp from one of the branches so we would have a well lit area where we set up camp for the night. [Joadja Valley in its hay days during the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s was filled with toxic black smoke billowing from the refinery stacks. The mortality rate of the population was high, particularly among children. Joadja had its own ghost stories that were well known to locals of the 35.
(36) UFO DOWN-UNDER. This meant that if you wanted to observe the darkness of the night sky, you could take one of the portable radios and select a suitable area away from the camp light. We had our own Indigo Jones character that decided to test the radio some distance into the dark. We checked the frequency on the base radio, and all was ready to receive if need be. After we lost sight of him into the dark abyss, all went quiet. We hoped our Indigo did not venture too far, because none of us wanted to have to search for him if he got lost, which could easily happen. Suddenly, great panic overcame our Indigo. He was yelling and cursing over the radio. You could hear the panic and fright in his voice. We could not understand what he was saying, only that he was returning to base. In the distance, we could hear his heavy footsteps getting louder as he approached the base camp. Within 30 seconds, he had safely rejoined the group. “What the hell happened out there?” we asked. “I bumped into a Kangaroo” he replied. He further went on to describe how he thought it was the “Ghost of Joadja” that had grabbed him. He never ventured out of the camp light for the rest of the night. We did not see anything else that night, but it was an experience I will always remember. Most of us remained awake all night telling stories about UFO sightings, and anything associated with ghosts and the unexplained.. Alarmed Caller.. One night an excited young man phoned, and began describing the strange sound he had heard while driving home. He had recorded the sound on his car audio tape, and asked if I wanted to listen to it. Naturally, I said yes. He played the tape over the phone. The sound was quite loud, and increased the decreased in pitch in a repeating sequence. It was a sound that I could not identify. He said that he thought it could be a landed UFO, and could take me to the location which was not far from where I lived. Within 10 minutes he was at my front door. I was ready to go, and had my camera and portable tape recorder, so that I could record the noise if it was still there when we arrived at the location. As we came closer to the location, I could hear the noise getting louder. It was not a landed UFO; it was a new security alarm system. I suggested we keep going otherwise we 36.
(37) UFO DOWN-UNDER. could become suspects if it was a break-in. Case closed. However, I did manage to record a minute of the alarm on tape. I could use this for future reference. The next Skywatch was organised with our group at a location further west of Sydney in the Penrith area. There had been UFO reports from this area recently, and was a good choice if they were still around. We had a high vantage point for viewing some distance toward the East. When it became very dark, we were all lined up observing the view in the hope of seeing UFO’s. Unbeknown to the others, I had my portable tape recorder under my jacket, the one with the security alarm noise. With the volume down very low, I turned it on. You could just hear the strange alarm recording playing. I did not say anything. I turned the volume up slightly, and let it play. You could just hear it, but not determine the direction it was coming from. One of the ladies spoke up first. “Hey, what is that noise?” She said with an anxious voice. “I can not hear anything? I said in reply. We were all intensely listening for that noise now. “I can hear it”, another would say. “So can I”, “Me too”, “What is it?” Were some of the now quick anxious replies. “It sounds like a UFO”, I yelled in an excited voice. I proceeded to slowly turn the volume up now that I had everyone’s attention. “It is coming this way”, someone said. Well, I could not hold back any longer. I began to laugh out loud as I revealed the portable tape player, and turned the volume up so they could all hear it clearly. I explained how I got the recording, and now they had heard for themselves how this new security alarm system sounds. As a group, we went on numerous Skywatche’s all over the surrounding Sydney and Blue Mountains region, but we did not see much UFO activity, however the company of friends was fair compromise. Many life long friends can be made when people report a sighting of something they can not readily identify, and has to be called UFO. It is comforting for most to find persons who understand the subject and so willing to listen to them, and possibly offer some explanation as to what they have seen or experienced. Otherwise, many would be lost or remain confused about their real UFO experience. 37.
(38) UFO DOWN-UNDER. EarthWobblePhoto.. Photo copyright © Barry Taylor 1971 In 1972, I had set up a photographic darkroom to process black and white film. I already had a good SLR camera and sturdy tripod. My interest in the Stars at an all time high tempted me to do some time exposures of the night sky so as to get Star Trails on film now that I could process the film myself. It was June of 1971 that I set up the camera on a tri-pod in my back yard to take time exposures of the stars in the southern sky. I did a series of time exposures, one per night until I finished the film. I left the camera shutter open for around 2 hours, sometimes more. I would sometimes find the dew had settled on the camera and lens, so I had to finish the session if that happened, otherwise I could ruin the camera. Besides, the images would be distorted into fuzz if the lens was wet. All time exposure frames but one, showed the Star Trails as parallel lines. This happens because of the steady rotation of the Earth on its axis. The frame that shows the Star Trails crossing one another should not have happened. That is, unless the Earth went through a ‘wobble’. And this is what I think actually happened on the night this exposure was taken. The Earth does have a periodic wobble, called the “Chandler Wobble”. Every 500 days or so, the Earth wobbles slightly on its axis. It may have been this wobble that I was able to capture on my Star Trail image. Everyone I showed this photo to, agreed that it appears the Earth was going through a wobble stage. 38.
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